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...tried to play on Friday to beat the snows, but that didn't work out because the turf had frozen over," senior Mark Blake said...

Author: By Ishaan Seth, | Title: Take Three: Bad Weather Deep-Freezes M. Lax Game | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...play Shaffer, 67, characteristically makes no attempt to resolve his contradictions or modify his extremes. If anything he defiantly offers more of both, as if he had taken a motto from William Blake: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough." The Gift of the Gorgon, a Royal Shakespeare Company production that will open a limited run in the West End next week after three months at the RSC's base in the Barbican Center, is drenched in stage blood, Greek mythology and high rhetoric about creativity, violence and justice. Once again, Shaffer somehow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Succeeding At Extremes | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...third book, A Gilded Lapse of Time, is that rare phenomenon: a volume of poetry with universal appeal. Poetry critics will be attracted by its profound and intricate layers of meaning, and the language is beautiful enough to lure those who don't know the difference between Frost and Blake...

Author: By Deborah T. Kovsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Beautiful Gilded Lapse of Time | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

...drunk, and with cups on their heads. At Harvard, there are those who are as proud of soberly donning their black "FCS" hats (Final Clubs Suck) as those who delight in sporting their crimson "H" hats. Other walk around wearing "X" hats, while a few wear "XTS" hats. Blake said it well, "Without Contraries is no progression." Harvard is a hundred competing parades with only two shared themes: direction, and a belief in parades. Perhaps this is our redeeming grace, why I like Harvard and all that...

Author: By Peter Nohrnberg, | Title: Bedazzled Gerbils or Distant Astronomers | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...Blake Lawit's Artie Shaughnessy is convincing when being self-involved and petty; he is less convincing when there are momentary possibilities of greater emotional depth. The character and his action at the end of the play are only interesting insofar as we actually believe that he is not static, that he at least sometimes agonizes over Bananas, that he once really loved...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Well-Built House of Blue Leaves | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

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